New Royal Adelaide Hospital to open in September

The long-delayed new Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) will open on September 5, the South Australian Government has announced. Patients will be moved from the old hospital on Adelaide’s North Terrace during a planned three-day operation from September 4–6. The emergency department (ED) will take its first patients on Tuesday, September 5, when the old hospital’s ED officially closes. The hospital’s opening has been plagued by delays due to legal action with builders, faults with the building and the need to remediate soil at the site. Two construction workers died after accidents on the site. Today Premier Jay Weatherill and Health…